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Radio broadcast. Dramatic critic James Agate reviews comedy actress Madge Kendal’s career on the English stage from 1854 -1911. The talk is illustrated with recorded extracts featuring Kendal as Rosalind...
Fifth in a series of episodes, broadcast over five consecutive days, devoted to music inspired by Shakespeare’s plays. Peggy Reynolds presents the following pieces of music: Locke’s "Curtain Tune" as...
Video recording of Theatre for a New Audience’s 2007 production of The Merchant of Venice directed by Darko Tresnjak with F. Murray Abraham as Shylock. The director of the recording is Patrick Hoffman.
Radio broadcast. Dramatic critic James Agate reviews Fay Compton’s career on the English stage. The talk is illustrated with extracts from gramophone records featuring Compton as Ophelia and Henry Oscar as...
A videorecording of the Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre’s 2006 production of The Comedy or Errors directed by Christopher Luscombe with Andrew Havill as Antipholus of Syracuse and Simon Wilson as Antipholus...
Video recording by Theatre on Film & Stage (TOFT) of the production of Julius Caesar directed by Michael Langham and produced by Joseph Papp. Sonny Jim Gaines as Caesar and Jaime Sanchez as Mark Antony lead...
Opera. Conductor William Christie and librettist Jeremy Sams assembled the score from the music of Handel, Vivaldi, Rameau and others. A pastiche retelling of Shakespeare’s The Tempest and A Midsummer...
Radio broadcast featuring selected scenes from the play. With Carleton Hobbs as King John, and Howard Marion-Crawford as Philip, the Bastard. The commentary, written by M. R. Ridley, is spoken by Christopher...
Feature film version of the play. A naturalistic and literal reading with few interpretative touches. Gibson’s Hamlet is a man of action and with the text heavily cut (over 80%) he dominates the majority...
Radio version of Shakespeare’s comedy adapted by Lance Sieveking and produced by Val Gielgud. With Ralph Richardson as Bottom. Mendelssohn’s music is played by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with a...
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